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Facebook Home may have stolen the Android show of late, but Google’s Project Glass hasn’t lost its luster. In a video demonstration from last month’s SXSW event, Google Engineer Timothy Jordan spent nearly an hour showing off the Project Glass hardware, discussing Google’s Mirror API for Glass and perhaps most interesting, provided...

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Google got a lot of people talking when it announced that it's testing augmented reality glasses. Although experts are doubting that such an idea is really possible, there's a lot of excitement surrounding the project. The Project Glass: one day... video that Google released to demonstrate its idea has more...

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ARM Holdings, the U.K.-based company that architects the small chips powering most smartphones and tablets these days, is reaping huge benefits from the mobile market. On Tuesday, the company reported a 44 percent boost in pre-tax profits for the first quarter of 2013 and a 26 percent jump in revenues...

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For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it’s a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and connectivity (and lower costs) have given rise to a slew of wearable gadgets and apps that make it easy to track and make sense of our...

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One of my Twitter buddies recently joked that the ideal fitness device will be a neck collar that monitors the food going down your throat and then chokes you when you hit your calorie limit. These devices don’t do that. But they may get you to hum the tune...

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Smartphones already have Google Goggles, an image recognition search app, but consumers may one day have “Google glasses“. The search company publicly introduced Project Glass on Wednesday, a concept for wearable glasses that integrate directly with Google services. Google is sharing this video to kickstart ideas and gather feedback for the...

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We've been seeing Bluetooth make more and more inroads into fitness gadgets as of late, and it looks like the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is intent on seeing that trend continue. It announced the formation of a new Sports and Fitness Working Group today, which will be tasked with...

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Microsoft is considering a smartwatch device, reportedly having asked parts suppliers to provide suitable hardware earlier in the year. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft hasn’t yet committed to the project, which will use a small touchscreen for the watch face. Time may be against the company if it...

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Today, there’s a long list of apps and services that sit at the intersection of fitness and mobile technology and leverage everything from social dynamics and behavioral economics to Quanitifed Self-inspired tracking to motivate us to be more active and drop a few pounds. There’s Lift, Nike+, Basis, RunKeeper, Runtastic,...

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The race for dominance in wearable gadgets is on. To the surprise of no one, the same players that rule the smartphone market are trying to be the leaders of this market as well. According to a report from Bloomberg, Samsung has been readying a smartwatch to release to market...

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What if you could digitally interact with everything? The future of augmented reality -- think cerebral implants and digital contact lenses -- was imagined last year in a short film by graduate students Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. We highly recommend watching the eight-minute film, "Sight," in full, but also check...